Category: transportation
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Crown, King of the Streets
A comment from Desmond to the post on SEA streets led me to a great ‘country lane’ prototype in Vancouver, BC – located on Crown Street. :: image via City of Vancouver From the site: “This stormwater management and traffic calming project was completed in February 2006. Instead of the standard curb and gutter, this…
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SEAing Green Streets
Probably a case of green streets on the brain – but a current pro-bono project has inspired me do some looking back at a range of innovative stormwater projects using the street rights-of-way. One of the best is Seattle’s SEA Street project. SEA stands for ‘Street Edge Alternatives’ and is part of the Natural Drainage…
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From the Archives: Urban Habitat
One of the more interesting urban legends (which happens to be true) is the story of the coyote that decided to hitch a ride on Portland’s MAX light rail – recently reemerged on the Seattle Transit Blog. :: image via Seattle Transit Blog Some more info via the strange Dogs In the News – from…
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DailyLand: Green Island
Somewhat of a visionary departure for the DailyLand feature, these visions of ‘green’ urbanism in the literal Green Island proposals of a vegetated Tokyo are both confrontational and thought provoking. It makes me think directly of the previous post wishing for green transit, and taking it a whole city further. Specifically I ask… would cities…
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DailyLand: Parc Nus de la Trinitat
Parc Nus de la Trinitat, Barcelona, 1993 by Joan Roig & Enric Batlle found via VULGARE. “…is in north east Barcelona, inside a circular motorway junction. The scale of the six hectare park is definad by a framework of trees forming a spactially effective filter between the motorways and the park. A circular gallery divides…
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Oh Joyless Utopia
This quick one found via Modern Mechanix features a ‘City within a City’, featuring New York’s Interstate Commerce Center, envisioned in 1946 as a dreary, hypermobilized utopian hub. “This unique “in-building highway,” 32 feet wide and three-quarters of a mile long, and rising at a grade of only 6%, will be one of the outstanding…
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Transportation Dump
I’ve been doing a ton of research lately on green streets, so that’s cause some focus beyond the general bigger picture of transportation. And with all of the upcoming spending on infrastructure through stimulation – it will be interesting to see how much of this will be green, how much will be grey, or at…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA la Revolution
As promised, the counterpoint to the recent posts related to Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) are the more conceptual illustrative examples in the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) posts – which offer a more sparsely informative overview of the visions of vegetated architecture and the many graphic forms that it takes. The dichotomy between vision and…
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Greening the Rails
Portland is well-known for having one of the best light-rail systems in the country. Through an efficient combination of train and streetcar – served by a great bus system, makes getting around the region sans car relatively pain free. A recent post from Inhabitat definitely struck home a point regarding a retrofit that could make…
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Welcome to Portlandia
Is Portland European, or is Europe Portlandian? Hmmmm….